Eastern Illinois University is home to a great deal of innovative research and creative activity, and a new WEIU-TV program aims to highlight the work being done by EIU's talented faculty.
Connect premieres Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m.; the hour-long program focuses on four Eastern faculty members from a variety of academic areas and will re-air a number of times over the next couple weeks. According to the program's website, "Connect is a new program special focused on telling stories of inspired ideas and creative thinking of the faculty at Eastern Illinois University."
After the premiere episode finishes its run -- the program website also lists these additional air times -- you can come back to this page to watch it or visit WEIU's YouTube channel to catch it again. To see how you can watch it over the airwaves, take a look at the station's TV coverage area map and cable listing. In the meantime, here are synopses of each segment from the first offering:
Marko Grünhagen, Ph.D., School of Business
Dr. Grünhagen's research interest lies in the broader area of small business marketing and retailing in an international context. As an internationally recognized expert on franchising, his main interest over the past several years has focused on motivations of franchise owners, their satisfaction with the franchisor, the effectiveness of franchise support services, and most recently, consumer perceptions of franchise offerings in the emerging markets of the Middle East and China.
Andrew Methven, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Methven is a mycologist and lichenologist with interests in the systematics, ecology, and phylogeny of fleshy fungi and lichens. He maintains the Cryptogamic Herbarium with more than 10,000 collections of fungi and lichens. This collection is in the process of being digitally cataloged and will be part of the Mycology Collections Data Portal (MyCoPortal) that will aid taxonomists, field biologists, ecologists, educators, and citizen scientists in the study of fungal diversity.
Angela Yoder, Ph.D., Department of Counseling & Student Development
Dr. Yoder has extensive experience in clinical therapy with children. Her research interests include: foster parenting, play therapy, sexual abuse of children, and attachment disorders. Her expertise in play therapy and working with children, adolescents, and families led to the adaptation of the Child-Parent Relationship Therapy model for use with senior citizen volunteers in elementary schools.
Charles R. Foy, Ph.D., Department of History
Dr. Foy’s scholarship focuses on the eighteenth century Black Atlantic. As a social historian Dr. Foy is interested in how individuals accommodate themselves to larger societal forces and how identities are transformed. His work on the development of a Black Mariner Database contains records on more than 26,000 black mariners and black maritime fugitives.
